2017-06-08

Expect the Third Festival of the ChessBomb Tour 2017

Organizers: the chess portal ChessBomb.com and the Chess Club ChessBomb - Plovdiv

With the support of the municipalities of Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas and Vidin

The chain will include four festivals. Each festival will include qualification tournaments:

Tournaments of Group A - for international players with ELO> 2100

Tournaments of Group B - for players with an international ELO <2200

Tournaments of Group C - for children up to 16 years (born after 01.01.2001)

The Festivals will be held according to the following schedule:

Festival I on 06.05.2017, in the town of Sofia - tournaments A1, B1, C1

Festival II on 03.06.2017, in the town of Plovdiv - tournaments A2, B2, C2

Festival III on 01.06.2017, in the town of Varna - canceled

Festival IV on 05.08.2017, in the town of Bourgas - tournaments AB4, C4

Festival III on 09.09.2017, in the town of Vidin - tournaments AB3, C3

Final tournament in the town of Plovdiv.

In the Final tournament will take part those 20 chess players who ranked:

among the first 3 in one of the the tournament A1-A4 - 12 finalists;

first in one of the tournaments B1-B4 and C1-C4 - 8 finalists.

The 10 participants, invited by the organizers, will also take part in the Final tournament. They will be ten of the best chess players in the world chess elite. They will play with the participants in the Final tournament.

All 30 participants in the Final tournament will be awarded.

REGULATION OF THE QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENT IN VIDIN

The tournament AB3 - open - Group A and B

The tournaments of Group C will be for children up to 16 years (born after 01.01.2001)

The Festival III will be held in VIDIN, near the Gallery of art Nikola Petrov.

The right to participate in tournament AB3 and C3 have all the players who declare their participation in the tournament till 08.09.2017 and pay the tournament fee. Preliminary applications are accepted on email: aleksandar.delchev@gmail.com and on phone: +359 877657700 Emilia Djingirova

The tournament AB will be held in 13 rounds following the Swiss system, according to the FIDE tournament rules and FIDE Regulation from 1.07.2014. (Appendix В. Bliz - В4). The playing couples will be determined using the Swiss Manager software

The tournament C will be held in 9 rounds following the Swiss system, according to the FIDE tournament rules and FIDE Regulation from 1.07.2014(Appendix В. Bliz - В4) . The playing couples will be determined using the Swiss Manager software.

The time control of all tournaments will be 5 minutes per player until the end of the game with the increment of three (3) seconds per move starting from the first.

TIE-BREAK
The ranking of players whose finishing points are equal is determined by:
(A) The result of the games between players in the same group;
(B) Reduced Buchholz-1;
(C) Buchholz;
(D) Number of games won.